Stuff in Live you wish you figured out a long time ago

[gabster]

Folks - I am sure I am doing something wrong. Check this screen capture:

www.mamaliga.com/drag.mov

I am having three clips selected, and while I drag I have Cmd (Apple) key pressed, but when I drop them in the drop area, nothing happens.

Gabi.

[geo]

you are right, it doesn't work with midi clips, apparently! only with audio. I am on PC.

[djgroovy]

I just gave a reply on another thread about this:

Sometimes you have Live open but you want to hear some track or whatever in your media player, etc. but Live has control of your soundcard and you can't.
In Live 6, you can just click on the cpu meter and it will 'release' the driver...

[audiovoid]

The most simple of things, I know. And actually dosn't save more than like 1-second of time, but still:

To quickly transfer a clip (or group of clips) from Session View to Arrange view. Click on clip/clips, hold, hit Tab, drop clip/clips. Presto

Not like copy/paste or hitting record is THAT much slower or anything but I still love the way it feels. he he

[piZMo]

the keyboard shortcut section of the manual

..and holding alt while readjusting channel width to adjust all chans at once..

shift+alt to adjust width of selected groups of channels

[geo]

the keyboard shortcut section of the manual

..and holding alt while readjusting channel width to adjust all chans at once..

shift+alt to adjust width of selected groups of channels

I don't think you need shift+alt for that.

[Stace]

I know its only a little thing but what I usually do when getting my clips from session to arrange is I highlight what I want and then if its more than one clip I'll hold control, click, and drag them over to the Arrange tab at the right of screen and hover over it, it changes screen and then drop them in. But I think I'll be using audiovoid's technique from now on! Cheers geezer! Another gud one is hold Alt+left click on any one of the little arrows for unfolding a track in arrange and it unfolds all the tracks.

[audiovoid]

AND...Just within the past two days I have learned (and have a whole fastfx thread posted about it) that you can throw a vsti (the audio/fx version) on an Audio channel and then Route a midi channel into it and control it tHAT way, allowing for even more control than most standard midi-vsti's. At least with reaktor anyways.
I wish that I would have known about this a LOOOOng time ago.

[friend_kami]

AND...Just within the past two days I have learned (and have a whole fastfx thread posted about it) that you can throw a vsti (the audio/fx version) on an Audio channel and then Route a midi channel into it and control it tHAT way, allowing for even more control than most standard midi-vsti's. At least with reaktor anyways.
I wish that I would have known about this a LOOOOng time ago.

see, thats just brilliant.
im off to play

[ckbarlow]

Removing the stop button to keep clips playing, rather than duplicating them.
I actually went back and re-read the manual, and this isn't explained very well, although I Guess I'm still a numpty.

You know when this is really great? When using Live to run sound and music cues for live theater productions. Make as many tracks as the max number of simultaneously playing cues and/or per unique output for a multispeaker setup, whichever's higher. Set the preferences so that when you trigger a scene, the next one gets selected. Any cue that keeps running through the next scene, remove the stop button from that cell just as you would in a music arrangement.

Then sit through the show with blissfully minimalist control requirements. Trigger successive scenes with the Enter key and adjust tracks' relative volumes from your controller.

Compared to multiple CD, MD, cassette decks, this is heaven.

[Airwave]

Yesterday I discovered the power of unlinked looping of clip envelopes, which means you can loop your automation independently of what's playing.

so, once you hit the E button in clip view, you can draw envelopes, instead of having to copy it all the time, make your envelope for one bar, one quarter even, and loop it by unlinking regions and envelopes.

L.

[Tim Moore]

AND...Just within the past two days I have learned (and have a whole fastfx thread posted about it) that you can throw a vsti (the audio/fx version) on an Audio channel and then Route a midi channel into it and control it tHAT way, allowing for even more control than most standard midi-vsti's. At least with reaktor anyways.
I wish that I would have known about this a LOOOOng time ago.

I still can't get how to do this ((((

[Idonotlikebroccoli]

Yesterday I discovered the power of unlinked looping of clip envelopes, which means you can loop your automation independently of what's playing.

so, once you hit the E button in clip view, you can draw envelopes, instead of having to copy it all the time, make your envelope for one bar, one quarter even, and loop it by unlinking regions and envelopes.

L.

So you mean that one can create 1/16th of automation, and loop it instead of duplicating it 15 times?

[djgroovy]

Yesterday I discovered the power of unlinked looping of clip envelopes, which means you can loop your automation independently of what's playing.

so, once you hit the E button in clip view, you can draw envelopes, instead of having to copy it all the time, make your envelope for one bar, one quarter even, and loop it by unlinking regions and envelopes.

L.

So you mean that one can create 1/16th of automation, and loop it instead of duplicating it 15 times?

Yes, and you can also have a 1 bar sample have a 16 bar automation, etc.
In the envelopes panel, there's a lit button that says linked.
Hit it and the envelope now becomes unlinked from the clip's size and you can set it to loop over any period of time.

You can even have diferent parameters automated with diferent lenghts on the same clip, have odd lenghts like 5 beats, etc. Think of the possibilities...

[tanawana]

alt, then click on a midi note, then drag up and down to change velocity with the value popping up

ctrl, then click on a midi note, then drag up and down to duplicate it

- New to me at least.